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Author interview

Ida Lind on Writing the Long Winter

Jonas Berg · 29 August 2026

An author speaking at a literary event

Lind writes in the early morning, before the house is awake, and stops the moment it is.

"A room is a character," she says. "If you get the room right, the people arrive on their own."

We spoke about translation, about her four novels, and about the particular difficulty of writing weather.